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The calculus of variations was born from the problem of finding the curve joining two points such that a body sliding along it without friction would move from one end to the other in minimum time.
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Sengupta, J.K., Fanchon, P. (1997). Introduction to Control Theory. In: Control Theory Methods in Economics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6285-6_1
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